Biden claim about empty hydrants undermined by LA water utility's lack of common wildfire safety protocol
President Biden on Thursday said that empty fire hydrants in the Los Angeles area were the result of an intentional power ...
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LA Water And Power Officials Rake In Fat Salaries As Fire Hydrants Run Dry
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) officials raked in enormous taxpayer-funded paychecks before its fire ...
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LADWP Crews Work to Address Outages and Fire Response
Overnight, power was restored to an additional 14,000 customers. Since the onset of the windstorm, a total of 300,000 ...
Former LA water commissioner says mismanagement led to low hydrant levels
More than 30,000 Californians have evacuated and more than 28,000 are without power as multiple wildfires spread across ...
Newsom calls for investigation into water supply after tanks ‘went dry’ during wildfire
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power amid reports of ...
LADWP asks customers to conserve, issues boil water notice due to Palisades Fire
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers were asked on Wednesday to conserve water and residents remaining in the ...
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West Los Angeles power outage caused by metallic balloons, LADWP says
Metallic balloons drifted into power lines, leaving hundreds without power in the West LA communities of Sawtelle and ...
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LADWP Crews Work to Restore Power Amid Windstorm Impacts
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is actively responding to widespread power outages and water service ...
No, Los Angeles didn’t refuse to fill water reservoirs prior to fires
Firefighters were experiencing water shortages from hydrants because L.A.'s tanks couldn't be refilled as fast as water was ...
L.A. Residents Are Being Told to Boil Water 'Until Further Notice' Due to the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Fires
"Disease-causing organisms" may be found in the water and officials need to "re-pressurize the system," which has been pushed ...
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Los Angeles water system strained as firefighters struggle to contain wildfires
Officials reported that the water pressure to fire hydrants has diminished in Los Angeles, as several wildfires consume ...
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Everything You Need to Know About the FBI Investigation of the L.A. Department of Water and Power
There was a flurry of FBI activity in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, as agents served search warrants at both the downtown headquarters of the Department of Water and Power and City Hall East.